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What Max Hodak thinks about hiring

@max-hodak · 40 positions · 0 changes of mind

Co-founder and chief executive of Science, a neurotechnology company whose retinal implant restores sight to blind patients; before founding it he spent five years at Neuralink.

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  1. Our readingThere is no right hiring process, but there is a wrong one: not having something you do religiously as a company.

    Their wordsthere's no one right answer, but this is a thing where you need a really defined process. There is no right answer, but a wrong answer for sure is not having something that you do very religiously as a company.

    ↗Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enoughyoutube.com 5th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting

  3. Our readingAny one person or small group placed at the top of the hiring funnel will bottleneck the whole organisation, so first-round review should be distributed across the company as a vote.

    Their wordsAnd so we can distribute the voting across a lot of the company for this initial review, which is essential because if you're doing anything cool, by the time you get a couple years into it, that top of funnel is overwhelming. And if you place any in any small group of employees or any one person in the way as a bottle bottleneck on this, they will absolutely bottleneck the whole rest of the organization.

    ↗Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enoughyoutube.com 6th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting